Nvidia’s GTX 1060 6GB is a potent midrange graphics card and Gigabyte’s G1 Gaming series has a reputation for a well-built, quality product. How much performance can the GTX 1060 deliver compared with older, higher-end Maxwell hardware?

The Thirty Meter Telescope is designed to filter out the distortions of the atmosphere to provide images more like what we currently get from space telescopes. After some delays in planning, the TMT is finally under construction in Hawaii.

Ahead of AMD’s official unveil of the Hawaii line of GPUs, details, photos, and benchmarks of (probably) the Radeon R9-290X have leaked. The photos and benchmarks seem to confirm that the Hawaii XT (GCN 2.0) R9-290X has 2816 stream processors, split among 44 clusters. The leaked benchmarks peg the Radeon R9-290X as equal or slightly faster than Nvidia’s GTX Titan, and around 10% faster than the GTX 780 — strong, and if it’s priced right, it could put AMD back in the driving seat.

A few days ago, AMD released its latest Catalyst beta graphics driver — and hidden within, AMD has helpfully provided a long list of new GPU and APU code names that the driver is compatible with, and provided a little more background on the highly anticipated Kaveri desktop APU. The successor to the Kabini and Temash mobile APUs will be called Mullins. On the desktop, discrete GPU front, we now know that there will be an 8000-series (Sea Islands) GPU called Tonga, and that the 9000-series (Volcanic Islands) will feature Hawaii and Vesuvius GPUs.

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